Covering for mouthpieces of telephone-transmitters.



A. K. UANN. COVERING FOR MOUTHPIEGES 0P TELEPHONE TRANSMITTBRS.

APPLICATION FILED 00'1.18, 1909 Patented Sept. 13, 1910.

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COVERING FOR MOUTHPIECES Specification of Letters Patent.

WATKINS, COLORADO.

OF TELEPHONE-TRANSMITTERS.

Patented Sept. 13, 1910.

Application filed October 18, 1909. Serial No. 523,268.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNIE K. CANN, a c tizen of the United States, residing at \Vatkins, county of Ara shoe, andState of Colo rado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coverings for the Mouth- Pieces of Tele hone Transmitters; and I do declare the to lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to. which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters and ti ures of reference marked thereon, which ,orm a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved disk or cover for the mouth-piece of telephone transmitters, the )rimary object being to prevent the sprea of disease by infection, due to the promiscuous use of the same telephone, oftentimes, by many persons; and to this end, it consists of a thin, pliable vibra- 'tion of the device consisting tory disk adapted to be removably secured to the mouth-piece of the transmitter, so as to cover the same, while not interrupting the sound vibrations in talking.

Itfurther consists in the features, arrangements and combinations hereinafter t lescribedand claimed, all of which will be fully understood, by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which is illustrated an embodiment thereof.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a detail view of a telephone transmitter with my improvement; in position. Fig. 2 is a face view of the device looking in the direction of the arrow 2 in Fig. 1'. Fig. 3 is a central section of the device taken through the line 23-45, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a face view taken in the opposite direction from that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the device before foldin Similar re erence characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views of the drawing.

Let the numeral 5 designate the body porof a blank representing two disks 6 and joined. These disks 6 and 7 are provided with circular Iopenings 8 and 9 respectively. The body portion 5 is preferably made of card board or stiff paper ahd the disk 7 slit, as at 10, to permit it to be readily fitted over the mouth of the transmitter. The opening 8 in the disk portion 6, is covered. by a thin, pliable fabric- 12, preferably soft tissue paper, gumined'in place, and fitted loosely so as not to interru t the sound passing through it in talking. he disks 6 and 7 are folded upon each other on the line 13 (see Fi 5), the shaded faces 14, l4,'being gummed so as to retain the blank 5 in its folded position, at

which the upper edge of .the transmitter rests, holding the device in position.

It will be seen that the above device is inexpensive and might readily be disinfected, but its rincipal use is for public telephones, where t e device is readily placed in position and destroyed after each conversation, to be replaced by anotherdevice for the next person using the telephone.

I claim 1s i mouth piece of a telephone transmitter, consisting essentially of a body portion folded upon itself, the it per extreme ends of the folds caused to ad ere by giimming, to form a pocket for removable engagement with the transmitter, said folds having circular openings, the o enin in the outer fold being coyered wit a t in pliable fabric to cover the open end of the mouth piece of the transmitter, the inner fold bein provided with a slit communicating with t 0 lower part of the o ening, the said opening in the inner fold licing adapted to fit over the mouth ANNIE K. CANN.

Witnesses JESSIE Homer, A. Eenn'r OBmnu.

the same time forming a shallow pocket, inv

Having thus described my invention, what The herein described covering for the piece of the transmitter, for the purpose of lolding the cover in engagement with the 

